[c-nsp] Multilink Vs Serial Conf.

[Gangasagar Amula]

Hi Oli,

Pls clarify one more query of mine....
When we use multilink..is it we have to configure no fair-queue on the serial link(s) and fair-queue on the multilink....

Again if we are using Multilink for bundling purpose (right now we are not using it for bundling purpose as mentioned earlier...) is the load sharring between the links happens per packet or per destination?

Regds /Sagar.





On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 Oliver Boehmer(oboehmer) wrote :
>
> >
> > In our organisation.....we are using Multilink only for "fragment
> > delay" feature of ppp multilink....
> >
> > Hence we have configured one multilink for one link....
> >
> > And we are facing a prb....i.e. if I am giving Fair-queue in
> > Multilink and serial port...we get Queueing strategy: Weighted
> > fair...
> > but in serial its "Queueing strategy: weighted fair  [suspended,
> > using FIFO]"
> >
> > Is it Multilink configuration prefered first and then Serial Link
> > configuration....i.e. the fair-queue is really happening and then the
> > data is thrown to serial as fifo.... Is it fair-queue doesnt happen
> > twice....for same data....
> >
> > Is my analyses to the observation right...?
>
>yes, this is correct. All the queuing happens at the multilink
>interface, the physical is then just a fifo pipe.. This is the only way
>to perform fancy queuing on multilink links as one serial has no means
>to know how the other interface's buffers/queues look like...
>
> 	oli